NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
- Section I. About NetBackup
- Section II. Monitoring and notifications
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Activity monitor
- Job monitoring
- Troubleshooting the viewing and managing of jobs
- Device monitor
- Notifications
- Registering the data collector
- Monitoring NetBackup activity
- Section III. Configuring hosts
- Managing host properties
- Busy file settings properties
- Client attributes properties
- Client settings properties for UNIX clients
- Client settings properties for Windows clients
- Data Classification properties
- Default job priorities properties
- Encryption properties
- Exchange properties
- Exclude list properties
- Fibre transport properties
- General server properties
- Global attributes properties
- Logging properties
- Media properties
- Network settings properties
- Port ranges properties
- Preferred network properties
- Resilient network properties
- Restore failover properties
- Retention periods properties
- Scalable Storage properties
- Servers properties
- SharePoint properties
- SLP settings properties
- Managing credentials for workloads and systems that NetBackup accesses
- Managing deployment
- Managing host properties
- Section IV. Configuring storage
- Overview of storage options
- Configuring disk storage
- Integrating MSDP Cloud and CMS
- Create a universal share
- Managing media servers
- Configuring storage units
- Managing tape drives
- Managing robots and tape drives
- Inventorying robots
- Managing volumes
- Managing volume pools
- Managing volume groups
- Staging backups
- Troubleshooting storage configuration
- Section V. Configuring backups
- Overview of backups in the NetBackup web UI
- Managing protection plans
- Managing classic policies
- Protecting the NetBackup catalog
- Catalog backups
- Managing backup images
- Pausing data protection activity
- Section VI. Managing security
- Security events and audit logs
- Managing security certificates
- Managing host mappings
- Configuring multi-person authorization
- Managing user sessions
- Configuring multifactor authentication
- Managing the global security settings for the primary server
- About trusted primary servers
- Using access keys, API keys, and access codes
- Configuring authentication options
- Managing role-based access control
- Disabling access to NetBackup interfaces for OS Administrators
- Section VII. Detection and reporting
- Detecting anomalies
- About backup anomaly detection
- Malware scanning
- Usage reporting and capacity licensing
- Detecting anomalies
- Section VIII. NetBackup workloads and NetBackup Flex Scale
- Section IX. Administering NetBackup
- Management topics
- Managing client backups and restores
- About client-redirected restores
- Section X. Disaster recovery and troubleshooting
- Section XI. Other topics
- Additional NetBackup catalog information
- About the NetBackup database
- About the NetBackup database installation
- Post-installation tasks
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on Windows
- Using the NetBackup Database Administration utility on UNIX
Parts of the NetBackup catalog
The NetBackup catalog resides on the NetBackup primary server. It manages and controls access to the following types of data:
Image metadata (information about backup images and copies).
Backup content data (information about the folders, files, and the objects in a backup (
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NetBackup licensing data.
The NetBackup error log.
The client database.
Cloud configuration files.
The catalog consists of the following parts:
NetBackup stores information in the NetBackup database (NBDB). The metadata includes information about the data that has been backed up, and about where the data is stored.
The image database.
The image database contains information about the data that has been backed up.
NetBackup configuration files.
The key management service (KMS) configuration files
For more details on the KMS configuration, see the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide.
NetBackup is sensitive to the location of the primary server components. Running any part of NetBackup (the binaries, the logs, the database, the images) on a network share (NFS, for example) can affect performance of even normal operations. NetBackup can be CIFS-mounted on SAN or NAS storage as long as the average I/O service times remain less than 20 milliseconds.
The storage must also meet certain conditions to ensure data integrity in the NetBackup catalog.
The order of file writes must be guaranteed.
When a write request is issued, the write must complete to the physical storage. The write request must not merely be buffered when the SAN or the NAS returns from the write call.
See the following article for more information: